From Edward E. Phelps, M. D., Lecturer on Medical Botany in Dartmouth College, 



Hanover, N. H. 



To WHOM TT MAT CONCERN : The bearer, Mr. P. P. Good, is the editor of an 

 excellent work on Medical Botany, with which I have for some months past been 

 acquainted. 



He is now wishing to obtain subscribers for it, and I would take this opportunity 

 to say to those physicians who would like to acquire a more perfect knowledge of 

 our own medical plants, that in my opinion they will never be able to do so on any 

 better terms than those offered by Mr. Good. 



To those with whom I have had some conversation on Medical Botany I would 

 add, that nothing better than the present work (even if it could be obtained) is 

 needed to facilitate the study of Medical Botany. 



EDWARD E. PHELPS, M. D., 

 Lecturer on Medical Botany in Dartmouth College. 



From A. Young, Jr., M. D. t (appointed by the Legislature) Botanist to the State of 



Maine. 

 PETER P. GOOD: 



Dear Sir : Please accept my thanks for the numbers of the Family Flora and 

 Materia Medica Botanica, which you had the goodness to leave with me, and also 

 those you have mailed to me subsequently. 



I have examined them with much pleasure and satisfaction, and indeed I know- 

 not how your work can be improved to answer the end for which it is designed. 

 As a cheap, popular, and instructive Flora it cannot be excelled. 



The engravings are good and correct. The typography neat and agreeable to 

 the eye, and the subject-matter, relating to the uses of plants, sound and judicious. 



I think the work finely adapted as a botanical guide for the physician and the 

 student who seek to obtain knowledge which they have not yet acquired ; in a 

 word, it merits my warmest and most decided praise. 



I hope you will receive sufficient support to enable you to complete such an 

 agreeable publication. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



A. YOUNG, JR., 

 Botanist to the State of Maine. 



From S. Pearl Lathrop, M. D., Principal of the Middlebury Female Seminary, and In- 

 structor in Botany, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. 



PETER P. GOOD: 



Dear Sir : Permit me to express to you my unqualified approbation of your 

 very worthy and happy effort to introduce the heads of families, and thus the rising 

 generation, to a familiar acquaintance with the properties and uses of particular in- 

 dividuals of the several orders of the vegetable kingdom. Your work, illustrated 

 as it is with beautiful plates, drawn from nature, will not only enable them to dh^ 

 cover the plants described, but awaken a taste for one of the most agreeable afro 

 useful branches of natural science. The chemical and medical properties and uses 

 of plants, brought to view in your work, are invaluable, and are peculiarly adapted 

 for the general as well as the scientific reader. 

 Very truly, &c., 



"s. PEARL LATHROP, M. D., 

 Principal of the Middlebury Female Seminary. 



From Joseph D. Friend, M. D , (Author of a Theory and Practice of Medicine,) 

 Middletown, N. Y. 



To MT BOTANIC FRIENDS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY : From a careful ex- 

 amination of Mr. Good's Family Flora, already published, and the design of its 

 publication in future, I do most cheerfully recommend it to the patronage of my 

 botanic friends throughout the country. This work will fill a void which has always 

 existed in this department of science, and will enable the physician and student to 

 command in a concise form a thorough knowledge of the genus, history, and med- 

 ical and chemical properties of the entire vegetable kingdom. 



Mr. Good has long been known as a most successful teacher, a ripe scholar, and 

 a gentleman in whose integrity the public may place the most implicit confidence. 



JOSEPH D. FRIEND, 



